Kate Ritchie’s Retirement From Acting Possibly Not Necessarily A ‘Retirement’

When Kate “Sally Fletcher” Ritchie left the cast of Home & Away after what seemed like five million years (approximately), it looked as though that was it for the former child actress; radio was her new frontier and all the Summer Bay fans best suck it up!

Well, perhaps said suckage can be put on hold – Ritchie is rumoured to be returning to the world of television, to appear in the remake of The Young Doctors, which has perplexingly dropped the “The”:

Described as “Grey’s Anatomy meets The Secret Life of Us”, the series is currently in development with production company Fremantle Media and Channel 9, but is not likely to be seen on screens until next year.

While an official approach is yet to have been made to Ritchie’s agent, both Fremantle and Nine are eager to swoop on the viewer favourite after she ended her 20-year association with Seven soap Home and Away.

“The program is still in very early days of scripting and character development, but we think Kate is fantastic and would love to have her on the network at some stage,” a Nine spokeswoman told Confidential.

Yes, you read that right – “Grey’s Anatomy meets Secret Life Of Us“.

You know, I can – for some reason – handle the whole remake fever when it comes to multiplex fare, but there’s something about television remakes that is scraping the bottom of the “scraping the bottom of the barrel” barrel.

But if this is the new trend then I’d like to suggest that someone remakes Chances.